2.12.2010

#13

when i went to nyc for the first time, we went to 'top of the rock' which is an observation deck on top of the rockefeller center. I was determined take a cool picture of the city, but the stupid plastic windows surrounding us were making it quite difficult. It was also getting dark and I needed a flat surface to use as a tripod. There were tiny slots in the windows though, and i got a genius idea. My camera wouldn't fit through, but if i took the lens off, it would. so I disassembled my beautiful, expensive, love-of-my-life camera, stuck it through the slots, and re-assembled it on the other side of the windows, with my arms all twisted and crazy, and set it on the cement edge...

Yes, 70 floors up and 850 feet above ground.not to mention the wind...

17 comments:

*I honestly can't think of anything that insane that I have done with my camera. I fear ever even taking the lense off for the sake of dust. There have been one two many black specks on my pictures to repeat that mistake. Although, I have never been to New York so I am sure I just haven't had the proper motive yet. ;)

Those pictures are GORGEOUS! When we went to New York it was for a cruise so we only got to stay there for a couple of days...but I LOVED it! While we were on the ship leaving the port I wanted to get an awesome picture of the Statue of Liberty so I held my camera over our balcony to get a great shot! I was so scared that I would accidentally drop my camera in the water! I didn't and I got a great shot!

Kali you are an amazing photographer! Those pictures are stunning. I don't have a nice camera so I've never had to take off a lens, but when I was in Paris on the Eiffel Tower the wires they had were messing up my pictures so I stuck my camera through them, scared me half to death. I can't imagine doing it with a camera as nice as yours :D

Oh, so worth it. Those pics are awesome. I have a picture that Neal and I took when we were in NYC and it has the twin towers in it. Although it is not anything like the pics you have here, that are breath taking, I do have it. Never thought those would be gone one day!!!

I got my very first "real" camera a year and a half ago when I started my blog. I'm 51 years old and I haven't had a camera of my own since I was about 10. It's only a point and shoot, but finally I don't have to tell anyone to take a picture for me. Wow, I'm finally a grown-up.

I've been to NY twice now. The first time was on tour and we went to the top of the Empire State Building and I tried to get some shots of other different buildings around the city. I have a shot of the Twin Towers... and I'm SOOO glad that I do... since the next time I went... that shot could not be duplicated. :(